Costas’ Searing Comments About Biden Re-Election Talk

Bob Costas

There are people who badly don’t want a second Donald Trump presidency yet feel that Joe Biden isn’t the only answer and solution to prevent it.

Broadcaster Bob Costas, who belongs to different hall of fames for his work and is a 29-time Emmy Award winner and “the only person in television history to have won Emmys for sports, news and entertainment,” per Wikipedia, speaks pointedly to Biden wanting to retain office.

“If Biden’s hubris is such that he doesn’t understand the best interests of his party and, more important, his country, then he has to be shown the door. Period,” Costas recently stated.

Before that declaration, he talked as to the president’s limited-time value.

“And when it comes to Biden, this is like the truth that no one, until very recently wants to say out loud. But my friends will tell you, I’ve been saying it for four years. This is Emperor’s New Clothes stuff,” Costas said.

“Joe Biden should have run on a firm promise that he would be a one-term president. The only reason he is president is that he’s not Donald Trump. Then the Dems could have gotten a lot of people up in the bullpen, and they could have sorted through those people.”

President Joe Biden
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He goes deeper on the Trump-Biden debate that says only Biden right now can prevent a Trump return.

“Because if Trump is a threat to democracy, and in many ways he is, so too are the Dems who are in danger of being as feckless as the Republicans have long been shameless,” Costas argues. “If they’re going to send this guy out there, if Trump is a monster, and in many ways he is, you’re going to send this guy out to slay the dragon? I don’t think so.”

Is it true, as regularly argued in the media and online, that if Trump is the enemy of all that is good and right, is Biden the only one who can defeat him and do excellent work for four more years — at his age and with his cognitive concerns?

Aron Solomon

“Costas’ point is absolutely worth considering,” says Aron Solomon, JD, analyst, writer and also the chief strategy officer at Amplify.

“The problem is the Democratic Party seems to be flying without an actual plan. It defies logic that the party couldn’t have planned for something as predictable as this old president being four years older after his first term and found other viable candidates. But here we are.”

He quickly dismisses the common narrative that Biden is worse off than Trump mentally.

“As to the cognitive concerns aspect, let’s say it’s a blue, if not red herring. In other words, if I were voting on cognition alone and had to choose between Biden and Trump, I’m personally sure I’d choose the former,” Solomon says.

If Costas’ point that Biden is problematic for advance of the nation, it can still not be ideal for him to represent the party.

“For the Dems to put all of their electoral eggs in the basket of a president who has been objectively certainly better than average and is subjectively abysmal is a bold move,” Solomon contends. “Again, this is what happens when a party’s strategy is reactive rather than proactive, which is safe to say is the case here.”

Costas’ argument and others like it will not being going away as the candidates, parties and country move down the road to the election. The noise is going to get louder.

“They're going to turn it to eleven, ‘Nigel,’” Solomon says. “Biden won’t get more lucid between now and November. Sorry, but it’s just reality.”

It’s a strong message for opponents to keep hammering.

“It’s a great sword for the GOP,” Solomon contends, “and the Democrats seem to be shield-less. They are going to hit this daily. Fox News has found it’s teeny bit of gold.”

What then, it should be asked, is the best-case scenario for Democrats and Americans — regardless of party — from 2024 to 2028?

“What a fantastic question,” Solomon begins, adding that, “I’m not being dramatic when I say ‘the preservation of democracy,’ or, more accurately, ‘the preservation of the remaining threads, shards, chunks of democracy.’

“There’s no rebounding from a post-rule-of-law society and that’s where the plane is flying.”